I like the Default (unspecified) fonts *↑* 100% bold but I partly question why we'd use a character at all rather than an SVG graphic we have more control over. It certainly seems overkill to use webfonts for this unless we're using an iconfont.
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Quiddity <[email protected]> wrote: > Most Wikimedia sites use the mediawiki default of an Arrow ↑ to backlink > from citation-contents to the superscripted number/letter. > > English Wikipedia changed the default in 2006, to use a caret ^ and a few > dozen other wikis have copied that. > > We'd like to examine the problems with the Arrow, to see if they can be > fixed. > > We need help browser-testing and diagnosing and fixing the problem(s). > > This may have strong relevancy to the Typography Update in Beta Features. > > I've tried to summarize everything so far, at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Cite_messages# > Testing_and_summary_so_far > > Thanks! > Quiddity > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >
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